Package: dpkg-dev
Version: 1.16.10
Severity: wishlist

Hello DPKG developers,

To be reliable, dpkg-buildflags should provide a versionning system like
debhelper does with debian/compat.

dpkg-buildflags would defines a interface level (1,2,3,...) that is incremented
each time the output of 'dpkg-buildflags --dump' change in the default
configuration. Such interface level would be defined per vendor.

Then dpkg-buildflags would provide an option --level <version> to choose the
interface level to use.

So 'dpkg-buildflags --level 1' would always return the same output even if
dpkg-buildflags is updated to set different flags (unless the user override
the default).

This would allow to rebuild packages with newer dpkg-dev versions without the
risk of getting different values for the flags that the original binaries
used.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballo...@debian.org>

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